Sanjay Kumar & Company

Sanjay Kumar & Company is situated at 2674 in Naya Bazar. If you’ve ever been to this part of Delhi, you know it’s a maze of narrow lanes and old buildings that have been around forever. Our office is right in the middle of all that chaos. Every day starts with the sound of handcarts being pushed over the uneven ground and the smell of different grains and spices from the neighboring shops. It’s a very traditional way of working here. We spend a lot of time sitting amongst high stacks of ledgers and heavy sacks. There isn’t much space to move around, but we’ve managed to organize it so we can find what we need. Dealing with the market prices and the various suppliers takes up most of our energy. We have a lot of people dropping in throughout the day, so there’s a lot of talking and tea drinking while we sort out the deals. The walls of our place are a bit faded, and the overhead fan makes a clicking sound that we’ve just stopped noticing. It’s a gritty, busy environment where you have to be quick to keep up with the pace of the bazaar. We don’t have fancy computers for everything; a lot of it is still done the old-fashioned way with pen and paper. It is just how things have always been done in Naya Bazar for a long time now.